I've had ZERO success in playing MCE content - ie live TV,
recorded TV etc on the XBOX 360. The menus are intolerably slow,
taking 5-30s to
respond. Eventually when streaming starts I get a couple of seconds
then streaming stops.

I have Windows Vista Ultimate x64 (SP1 RC)

If I try the performance test tool I get an error:

Unable to Measure Network Performance

A connection to the Windows Media Center Extender cannot be
established. Please make sure that the Extender device is properly
connected and that the start screen is visible.

This occurs with firewall and av all stopped. I (no longer -- thanks
to dynamic disks!) have OneCare installed, and the Xbox most
definately can connect to the PC as it manages to bring up initial
windows albeit with slow response.

Host machine is dual core (Pentium D 820) with 3Ghz ram running Vista
Ultimate x64. TV progs are on striped disk (2 devices). As before
network throughput is in the 16-20 Mbps range over 802.11g

Wireless power saving is off, and ping time is ~1ms.

Both devices are on same subnet with no additional firewall rules etc
set on router.

Finally Video streaming (mpeg4) and music streaming (mp3) from a PC ie
to
Media Player using the xbox 360 dashboard works *very smoothly*
meaning there is something wrong on the media center/xbox side.

- Nigel.

Few questions:
- Is navigation slow in Media Center directly on the PC? (or is the PC fine
and it is only slow on the Xbox?)
- What does CPU usage on your PC look like when you encounter slow
navigation on the Xbox?
- If you directly connect your PC to your Xbox 360 using an Ethernet cable
(completely bypassing your router), does this behavior go away? Note that
because you are bypassing your home router, you'll need to manually toggle
the network type back to Home in the Windows Firewall settings when you
switch to a direct connection

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"planetf1" <nigel.l.jones@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Jan 3, 2:01*am, "Todd Bowra [MSFT]" <todd...@online.microsoft.com>
wrote:

PC is fine. Only slow on xbox



But this isn't practical - devices are in different parts of the
house.

Also I have a PC connected to the same ethernet switch (router) as the
xbox and can sustain 16-20 Mbps traffic (802.11g 54Mbps) steady data
stream.

I can also watch videos using standard windows file sharing & the
internal xbox browser with no breakup/delay, so its mce specific.

On Jan 3, 2:01*am, "Todd Bowra [MSFT]" <todd...@online.microsoft.com>
wrote:

PC is fine. Only slow on xbox



But this isn't practical - devices are in different parts of the
house.

Also I have a PC connected to the same ethernet switch (router) as the
xbox and can sustain 16-20 Mbps traffic (802.11g 54Mbps) steady data
stream.

I can also watch videos using standard windows file sharing & the
internal xbox browser with no breakup/delay, so its mce specific.